Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

[Tom H]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:43 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 05/29/2010 12:48 PM, chris wrote:
> ...
>>> On my 200MB drive (/dev/sda), I currently have:
>>>
>>> /dev/sda1 Windows XP NTFS 90GB
>>> /dev/sda2 Extended partiton
>>>   /dev/sda5 swap 1GB
>>>   /dev/sda6 / 3GB
>>>   /dev/sda7 /tmp 5GB
>>>   /dev/sda8 /usr 10GB
>>>   /dev/sda9 /var 5GB
>>>   /dev/sda10 /home 40GB
>>>   unused
>>> /dev/sda3 Windows VFAT 5GB
>>> /dev/sda4 Windows Recovery VFAT 6GB (Recovery data)
>>>
>>> This last partiton doesn't ever get mounted.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>>
>> I would suggest that / is too small can you try 8GB as a minimum?
>> cheers the kiwi
>
> 3GB should be sufficient for / :
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/installation-guide/i386/disk-space-needed.html>
> "The standard Ubuntu desktop installation requires 2GB"
>
> But I think it worth checking all the system partitions via the liveCD
> to see if perhaps any are indeed full.

I wonder where they get the 2G from. A clean install from the Live CD
takes up 2.3G.

Having /usr mount on a separate partition makes 3G for / more than enough.